I had a first hand account of a funeral in a small SW Ukrainian village for a 21-year-old Ukrainian soldier killed near Donetsk last week….. people lined the main street and threw flowers on to the road as the cars went slowly by.

From Grasswire as yet unconfirmed – Russian armour painted as ‘peacekeepers’ ….. at least near the Ukraine border (Belgorod is in fact 10 miles north of the border in Russia).

Sorry I’ve been so absent lately, work is becoming way too consuming…
That said, I saw that image as a petrified chunk of dinosaur spoor.
Or a Republican talking point.
Those are most likely the same thing.

It’s especially ironic that her hubby is an alleged psychologist. If she ever wandered into a real psychiatric care facility she would be strapped to the floor of a padded cell and forcibly medicated before you could say “anti-American”.

“This is a man-caused disaster, and the man that caused it is Barack Obama, with his DACA policies and his Morton memos, and the advertisement that has been such a huge magnet that have caused these families to give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico, and it’s a death path on the death train,” — Rep. Steve King

The House of Reprehensibles has voted to sue President Obama in the moments before they go off on holiday. Something to the effect of taking action without getting their input or approval. It’s not like he hasn’t tried to get them to frickin’ do something…

It’s all very disgusting. Cheney/Bush tell all kinds of lies, send the nation into a trillion dollar failed crusade in the Middle East and escape all accountability.
Obama tries to reform health care and immigration and all of a sudden wailing and gnashing of teeth from the same flag wavers crying King! Liar!
I’m getting pissed.

At the very end of a live TV interview Chris Gunness did today. Gunness is the head of the UN’s Relief and Works Agency in Gaza. Israel bombed another of their schools today, killing children sleeping in a place they thought was safe. This seems to me to be the only human response: